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We all know the power and flexibility that public clouds like AWS bring to IT.\u00a0 But many businesses have security concerns about public clouds.\u00a0 And if you have an application that needs data that resides inside your enterprise, network bandwidth from a public cloud is an issue.\u00a0 For this reason, private clouds make a lot of sense for many business applications.<\/p>\n

OpenStack provides the software infrastructure for private clouds, and as an open source project, it is free.\u00a0 OpenStack, however, has lots of parts, and is fairly hard to set-up.\u00a0 So when Ubuntu\/Canonical announced the Orange Box <\/a>at the Atlanta OpenStack summit, there was lots of excitement.<\/p>\n

The Orange Box contains 10 nodes, each with 4 cores, and SSD storage.\u00a0 It is in a small enough package that it can be shipped with luggage in an airplane.\u00a0 If you want to learn OpenStack, Ubuntu will send an engineer to premise with the Orange Box, and help you set-up OpenStack on it.\u00a0 Thus, you can get training on OpenStack on a 10 node cluster without having to use any of your own machines.<\/p>\n

Ubuntu views the Orange Box primarily as a training tool.\u00a0 When the engineer leaves, the Orange Box goes as well.\u00a0 But why not take things a step further?\u00a0 Why not have a supplier who ships “OpenStack in a Rack”?<\/p>\n

It would be a relatively straightforward process for a manufacturer to configure an OpenStack cluster in machines in a 19″ rack, and then ship the whole assembly to a client.\u00a0 The client would only need to set a few external IP addresses, and the whole thing would be ready to go.\u00a0 Done right, the customer set-up time might be five minutes or so.\u00a0 And setting up a private cloud in only 5 minutes is a nice value proposition indeed.<\/p>\n

To keep ordering simple and to allow mass production, configuration choices for the rack would be limited.\u00a0 Think of this as the “McDonald’s Principle”.\u00a0 You have only a few items on the menu, and you mass produce them.<\/p>\n

To expand the private cloud would also be easy.\u00a0 You just order another rack.\u00a0 The first rack would already have the OpenStack control nodes, and the additional racks would simply have more nodes and disks.\u00a0 Cable the two together, and your private cloud just got bigger.<\/p>\n

The availability of turnkey OpenStack providers could help speed the adoption of OpenStack private clouds in the enterprise.<\/p>\n

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